Quotes About Time

I figure this is my time - to relax, be with my family and have a normal life.

There is a time to let things happen, and a time to make things happen." "Life is what happens when you are making other plans.

Learn to appreciate the things you have before time forces you appreciate the things you once had.

I think that it's a crime to say you are bored when time is so precious and there are so many things to do in life: read, learn, watch.

I'd give all the wealth that years have piled, the slow result of life's decay, To be once more a little child for one bright summer day.

When I was young, life seemed long and endless to me.

Don't let the urgent take the place of the important in your life... When you and I were putting out the fires of the urgent, the important was again left in a holding pattern.

Time is lost when we have not lived a full human life, time unenriched by experience, creative endeavor, enjoyment, and suffering.

People often ask me how long it takes me to write a play, and I tell them 'all of my life.'

Life has got to be lived - that's all there is to it. At seventy, I would say the advantage is that you take life more calmly. You know that 'this, too, shall pass!'

Life isn't just a sequence of waiting for things to be done.

Sometimes we have to be patient because the one thing that is inevitable in life is evolution. Whether it comes at the pace that we are expecting it or not, it's inevitable.

One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one's death, one dies one's life.

Life moves out of a red flare of dreams Into a common light of common hours, Until old age brings the red flare again.

This life is only a prelude to eternity.

Drink your wine. Laugh from your gut. Burden your moments with thankfulness. Be as empty as you can be when that clock winds down. Spend your life. And if time is a river, may you leave a wake.

The depth of experience fine wine can bring to a dinner, particularly a bottle that has been through the past 100 years, makes you take stock of your own life.

Every one of us has learned how to send emails on Sunday night. But how many of us know how to go a movie on Monday afternoon. You've unbalanced your life without balancing it with someone else.

There is not a minute of time in all of our life but we must either be near to God or we will be undone.

Art indeed is long, but life is short.

The purpose of art is to stop time.

Each person is only given so many evenings and each wasted evening is a gross violation against the natural course of your only life.

Now is all you ever have. There never is anything else. So, you might as well make the now your friend. Otherwise, you are out of alignment with life itself.

Since everybody is an individual, nobody can be you. You are unique. No one can tell you how to use your time. It is yours. Your life is your own. You mold it. You make it.